THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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LAWRENCE WORLD, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
VOL. III.
JANUARY 18, 1895.
NO.17.
DURING the holidays it was announced that the Commercial Club of Lawrence will entertain the editors of the newspapers of Kansas, after their meeting in Topeka next week: and that the committee selected to arrange the details of the matter consists of Mayor Simmons, Mr. J. D. Bowersock, and Chancellor Snow. The visitors are to be shown all of the many interesting features of the city and locality, not the least of which is the University.
Although very little has been said about this coming event, it is of the greatest importance to the school. It will thoroughly acquaint the most influential and broad-minded class of men in the state with the head of the common-school system of the state, the University. What Kansas University has suffered from, perhaps more than from any other one thing, is the lack of information concerning it, among the people of the state. A very large number know nothing at all of this school, and many have formed wholly untrue opinions concerning it, based often upon slanderous and untrue reports put in circulation by the ignorance or envy of persons representing rival schools.
After the approaching visit of the editors there will be, in almost every community in the state, an intelligent and influential person who knows the truth concerning the University, its work, its faculty and students, and its needs.
We are confident that only the truth need be known to make every editor who visits Lawrence a staunch friend of the University: to set him about the work of spreading in his community correct ideas concerning this school: and to show him the urgent necessity for increased appropriations.
The action of the legislature now in session will determine the future of the University, for the next two years at least. The growing appreciation, by the people of the state, of the advantages for higher education; the spread of information concerning this institution; and the large amount of practical work done by its various departments for the agricultural and educational advancement of Kansas; have doubtless had a great influence in making the present legislature very friendly to the University. But what is most difficult to prove to the